Having trouble connecting with the outside world can lead to troubling behavior, including unresponsive eye contact,
difficulties playing with other children, and delayed speech recognition.
Play therapy has been increasingly used in cases of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), since one of the challenges that can come with childhood ADHD is
difficulty playing with other children (Wilkes - Gillan et al., 2014).
Not exact matches
Children who experience SPD often have
difficulty paying attention in the classroom,
playing well
with others and experiencing their world in a positive way.
Traumatized
children often have
difficulty learning collaborative
play and reciprocal relationships
with others.
Children with autism often have
difficulty playing with, interacting
with, or relating to
other people.
But not actively socializing puppies is akin to keeping a
child at home without opportunities to
play with others or to experience the larger world, then being surprised when that
child experiences grave
difficulties navigating kindergarten.
These groups will overlap,
with epigenetic phenomena and
other environmental factors, for example, preterm birth, poor intrauterine growth, foetal exposure to teratogens,
playing an important role for all affected
children in determining the severity of their functional
difficulties.
Examples of self - regulation
difficulties in
children include ongoing
difficulties with concentration (e.g., being able to listen to a story), looking very sad and uninterested in daily activities (e.g.,
playing with other children), or becoming easily upset and worries so they are unable to move on.
Some of the signs of self - regulation
difficulties in
children include ongoing
difficulties with concentration (e.g., being unable to listen to a story), looking very sad and uninterested in daily activities (e.g.,
playing with other children), or becoming easily upset and worried so they are unable to move on.
Examples of self - regulation
difficulties in
children include ongoing
difficulties with concentration (eg being able to listen to a story), looking very sad and uninterested in daily activities (eg
playing with other children), or becoming easily upset and worries so they are unable to move on.
This book is essential reading for
play therapists, social workers and
other professionals working
with children, as well as parents and carers of
children who are experiencing social and / or learning
difficulties.
Play therapy has been widely researched as an effective and developmentally appropriate method for working
with children dealing
with the following types of concerns, among
others: depression, grief and loss, social adjustment problems, speech
difficulties, trauma, hospitalization, reading
difficulties, selective mutism, enuresis and encopresis problems, fear and anxiety, abuse and neglect, aggression / acting out behaviors, attachment
difficulties, autism, chronic illness and disability, and parental separation or divorce.
The groups had similar ability to get along
with other children, but those
with IBD were reported to have more
difficulty in
playing or working alone, t (89) = 3.14; p <.01.